[Gllug] Nothing Simple

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huw Lynes [mailto:huw-l at moving-picture.co.uk]
> 
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 14:29, you wrote:
> > I am going to demonstrate RH7.2 here at work but I have use
> > switchdesk to move between Gnome and KDE now all I get when I start
> > startx is is X with nothing on it what have I done? 
> 
> OK, If you are getting a horrible green background you've been dumped
> down to TWM a very basic windowmanager because nothing else 
> has worked.

I think it is TWM and clicking on the mouse brings up a menu with a few
limited choices.

> If you are getting a grey background, cursor and nothing else then you
> are indeed running X with nothing on top of it. This happens when 
> startx is waiting on something.
> 
> Try starting run level 5 (the command is "init 5" from the 
> console) if 
> you get a login manager up then at least X is working and it's just 
> your windowmanager setup that is screwed. 

Tried init 5 and got a reboot so is x buggered.



You might want to 
> check what 
> the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit are doing. Also you might want to 
> rename any .x* files in your home directory in case these have become 
> corrupted.

I will have a look at these to see if there are any probs. Just waiting on
it to reboot

> 
> Thats all I can think of at the moment.


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